O͘
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O͘ is one of the six Taiwanese Minnan vowels as written in the Peh-oe-ji (POJ) orthography. It is a normal o followed by Unicode U+0358 (COMBINING DOT ABOVE RIGHT), and is not to be confused with the Vietnamese Ơ. It is pronounced as an open-mid back rounded vowel (IPA: /ɔ/).
This letter is not well-supported by fonts and is often typed as either o· (using the interpunct), o• (using the bullet), or ou.
Because Taiwanese is a tonal language the standard letter without a diacritic represents the vowel in the first tone, the other four possible tone categories require one of the following four tonal symbols to be written above it.
- Ó͘ ó͘ (second tone)
- Ò͘ ò͘ (third tone)
- Ô͘ ô͘ (fifth tone)
- Ō͘ ō͘ (seventh tone)
[edit] History
The character was introduced by the Xiamen-based missionary Elihu Doty in the mid-nineteenth century, as a way to distinguish the Minnan vowels /o/ and /ɔ/ (the latter becoming o͘).[1] Since then it has become established in the Peh-oe-ji orthography, with only occasional deviations early in its usage - one example being Carstairs Douglas's 1873 dictionary, where he replaced the o͘ with ø͘ (this letter can be recreated using LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE AND COMBINING DOT ABOVE RIGHT: U+00F8 plus U+0358).[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Klöter, Henning. "The History of Peh-oe-ji". http://203.64.42.21/giankiu/GTH/2002/TOLMJ/giteng/lunbun/K2-kloeter.pdf.
- ^ Douglas, Carstairs (1990) [1873]. Chinese English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken of Amoy. Taipei: Southern Materials Center. ISBN 957-9482-32-2.
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